Monday, July 24, 2006

Борат Сагдиев- Sexy time with Borat

For those not in the know, Borat is the creation of comedian, Sacha Baron Cohen (who also plays the character Ali G). His Borat character need only stand there with his stupid expression and I piss myself laughing. So I tried to capture that.

23 Comments:

Hey Chris.... Love the drawing... heck Love the "Borat" for that matter... I really like all of the drawings... but I think my favorite is the "dud" on the right... for me it gives the "in your face" feeling he has in his interviews... either way.... another great job.... PEACE!J

Hey Chris... Now that you mention it.... I totally get what you were sayin'.... he does look a lot like Zappa... Which in-turn inspired me to do up a quick drawing of him... www.jnowlandart.blogspot.com ... anyways.... Thanks again for the daily inspiration.... PEACE!

Cheers from Canada! Thanks for posting your very well thought out tutorials. Really clear and helpful. I enjoy that you use xerox paper for line art. As a storyboard artist that's what I do most of my work on. It certainly does the trick.

I luv your work. I want to get ot your level, which I'm sure would take my entire life. I'm very busy with work, a wife a nd 2 kids. How do you suggest I hone my talents. Figure drawing? I don't have a lot of time or money, but creative thoughts inside my brain. I'm looking to capture a style. How?

toby- Maybe carry a sketchbook with you wherever you go (holidays, travelling etc), just so you get into the habit of drawing, and drawing from life.

Life drawing would be good too but it might be hard to find time with your busy schedule.

Post your work up in illustration forums for critiques, or show your art to fellow artist friends. If you're going in the wrong direction their help can save a lot of backtracking.

Try and get into the habit of doing a drawing a day. Draw from your imagination, from photos in magazines, from your favourite artists. Also invest in some books on drawing and anatomy. Most of all, have fun. If you enjoy what you are doing, it'll make all the hard work ahead not seem so bad.

heri- Are we talking about caricatures? I can usually picture the distortions in my head, almost immediately after seeing a person's photo, then it's just a matter of translating it to the page. For me it starts with the head shape (is it long, wide, round, squashed, concave, convex etc.) Then I move onto the most prominent features. It's just as important to underexaggerate the minor features, as it is to overexaggerate the prominent ones.

Making mental observations about the subject is an important step before putting pencil to paper.

When I'm doing character design for a client I usually do about 5 or 6 character sketches in different styles, depending on the brief (I also add one completely different from the client's brief, just in case I can change their mind). Then the client narrows it down, or asks to combine certain elements from one with another. Once the character's approved (which can be a quick process or drag on forever), I draw up some colour layouts of the final character. If it was a character for animation, I'd also draw some turnarounds, pose and expression drawings.